Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Fashion icon Katja Geiger dead – Västerbottens-kuriren (the Courier)

The Swedish fashion designer, Katja Geiger, founder of the design company, Katja of Sweden, has passed away at 97-years-old, writes the daily News.

Geiger was educated at Konstfack and Beckmans in Stockholm and worked as an illustrator at the daily News before she and her husband, film producer and director Rod Geiger, created Katja of Sweden together in the 1950s.

the Company cooperated with a number of young Swedish artists, including Carl Johan De Geer, and was successful both in Sweden and abroad.